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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN;

Be it known that I, ANSON R.'BROWN, of 'Litchfield,'in the county of Hillsdale, and State of Michigan,

I have invented a new and improved medical compound, which I call Broivns Renovating Compound. .This

compound is intended tobe introduced by a puncturing instrument beneath the skin as a counter-irritant, and it acts as a substitute for the ordinary mechanical operations, such as scarifying, 'cupping, .dry cupping, (lry puncturing, leechi'ng, setons; and also the surface applications, such as mustard, irritating. plasters, Spanish flies, liniments, &c. In point of convenience and readiness of application, as well as in the cleanliness and comparative freedom from severe pain incident to its application, it is superior to the applications cited. It is also more readily kept in proper condition for application than most of the other applications cited. As a medicinal counter-irritating agent, it acts more speedily than mustard, and its application is easy. It is more effectual than a blister, and does not produce the temporary disability incident thereto. Its full action may be varied from three to fifteen days by a little variation of the constituents of the compound, as will be cited hereafter. This compound, inoculated into the epidermis, acts as a powerful alterative, being taken up by the cutaneous absorbents so as to aiTect. the system more powerfully by one application than can be accomplished by several days internal medication, which is frequently'imperfectly accomplished owing to the deranged, organic, or functional condition of the stomach and alimentary canal. The medicine not absorbed causes a general pustulaticn ever the parts which readily heals.

The fluid is compounded as follows: 'Mix 2 ounces o'l. TigliilCroton oil) with 16 fluid ounces alcohol. Mix 502. ol. Cinnamomum with Btluid ounces alcohol. Take of the-saturated tinctures of radix Podophyllum pelt (mandrake) 16 oz.; radix Sanguinaria can. (blood-root) 16 02.; radix Phytslacca dec. (scoke) 16 02.; res. Euphon bium 16 oz.; herb. Hypericum perf. (St. Johns wort) 16 02.; eort. Rhus toxl, (climbing ivy,) or Rhus radicans', (swamp sumach,) %-to d fluid 02.; cantharides (Spanish fiiesl d oz. v

Mix all the above and add olive oil 2 ounces as preventive of rust. Shake well each time of using. To increase or decrease the suppurative power of the compound, increase or decrease the proportion of the rhus. To increase or decrease the immediate counter-irritating power of the fluid, proportion the quantity of the oil of cinnamon.

Having described my invention, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The medical compound, substantially as described.

ANSON R. BROWN Witnesses:

G. How,

WnLrAM L. BROWN: 

